Roger Daltrey Plans To Pass The Charity Torch

Singer Roger Daltrey reportedly plans to step down from his role as organizer of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts and pass the torch to musicians of a younger generation.

Daltrey – singer for The Who – has been behind the concerts since 2000, and has asked Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher and Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones to take on the responsibility.

“I would like to take the model of what we’ve done here and concentrate on getting it started in other countries now,” said Daltrey. “It does take an awful lot of energy. I call it my ‘yearly breakdown’. I would love to find someone from a younger generation to take over from me.”

Kelly Jones from The Stereophonics – who headlined a Teenage Cancer Trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall last week – is enthusiastic about the challenge.

“He asked me and Noel a couple of times to our faces. If you’re in a band and you can help people who are worse off, it’s not much to ask for,” he said. “It’s a big job and we’re like, ‘Come on Roger, you’d do it a lot better than us’, and he carries on doing it. I’ve never really given it as much thought as answering it with a serious tone. We’ll see. You see what happens in life.”